Transhumanism and Religion: What will happen as we accelerate into the future?

We have a special guest, Dr. Martin Kastrup, and he is the CFO of the German Protestant church representing 22 million members and 20000 churches. We've also just relocated our meetup location from The Interval at Long Now to Noisebridge Hackerspace in the Mission. Come join us for a meaty discussion about Transhumanism and Religion. It's interesting to study the semiotics of Transhumanism and wonder why the philosophy hasn't gained more of a cultural identity. I was surprised to have created the only Transhumanist meetup group in SF, and noticed that while many people identify as Transhumanist, most groups, meetups, and organizations fall under the banner of Futurism. What's the point of Transhumanism, when to be human is to be transhuman, right? But perhaps there is something politically annoying to lay people about the word "trans" that causes negative reactions whenever the word is introduced to many lay people.
This would be sad because the philosophy of Transhumanism is very important and doesn't come out as clearly under the banner of futurism as does the subject of "transforming" or "transcending" humanity in "transition". Important topics of Transhumanism are those concerning the nature of consciousness, our identities, and reality itself, all studied with practical consideration to how our impressions of these areas might change as new technologies emerge. Transhumanism should really be considered an area of academic study that just so happens to confront the most meaningful questions of existence and fits them right within the implications of our cultural and technological evolution.
-Who or what am I?
-What should I care about?
-If we conscious beings truly are separate from one another, each with our own, private, inner life, how are we connected if we are not part of a greater whole?
-Is humanity on the verge of a collapse of traditional identities and values? Don't incidents of suicide and mental health disorders increase during times of great social change?
-If we are about to go through the greatest era of social change in history, what can we hope for? Much of it is terribly frightening to confront. I would bet that most people pretend that everything is okay, but inside their lack of understanding tells them how vulnerable they really are. What if it turns out that solipsism is sort of true? You are the only person that exists, except that you are everyone and everyone is you somewhere else in space and time, and all consciousness is one consciousness. How would you connect the dots to make sense of everything else if that one idea were proven a fact?

Or what if consciousness doesn't exist? What if nature could somehow have its cake and eat it too when it came to our experience?: we could declare that there is no subjective experience while subjective experience insists upon us anyway. Would this not be an abomination?

What if there turns out to be a truth that pertains to value? A capital T True meaning to life? And what if some of us have it wrong and others have it right? What if every religion in the world is generally being misinterpreted by most people, including (if not especially by) their own followers? What if every religion were re-interpreted in the way that it was when it was originally formed, much like a philosophy to respond to a certain crisis of meaning? What if each religion contained a certain solution to the problems of its time? Perhaps there's a rational meaning to many of the supernatural concepts in religions, such as the nature of God, and of people like Jesus Christ, Krishna, the Buddha, Confucious, Lao Tsu, and others. What about the afterlife? Reincarnation? Karma? Dharma? Is there a way to make sense of all these or are they so muddled with contradictions that we should throw them all out and start over?

Today we live in a hypercomplex time that requires us to adapt to much more information and possibilities of action than any of our ancestors. Transhumanism is about merging humanity with technology. Philosophy and religion were the first software "operating systems" for society, and philosophers and religious leaders were the first "software engineers". If Transhumanism is about merging humanity with technology, it includes merging us with the right memetic software. Cultural evolution is about the evolution of the social superorganism whose DNA is memetic. Memes are the software "memories" that operate our brains and bodies. Cultures are superorganisms and with the explosion of data and knowledge, we are experiencing a historical era of cross pollination of memes from one cultural superorganism to another, analogous to horizontal gene transfer in prokaryotes before the advent of multicellular life. The great social superorganisms are sharing their memetic DNA. How will conservatives respond in every society?

One thing is probably certain:
Memes are undergoing their own kind of evolution. All memes "want" to live forever, functionally speaking, just like all genes before them.
As culture rubs up against reality, and we've discovered a way to participate in the falsification of memes in the process of science, will not every meme that can be falsified be falsified, and will not the truth remain? Isn't cultural evolution a great distiller of truth?

If there are great answers to the greatest mysteries, like who/what we are, what we should/shouldn't care about, who/what is right and/or wrong, what is truly meaningful, and these answers are within the reach of certain advances less than 30 years away, we are on the verge of confronting the most serious concerns of existence. How will the religious communities and the nonreligious alike react to the intelligence explosion of memes that will reveal which memes are true and which memes are lies? How will everyone react to this Last Judgement; a final Theory of Everything?